Wow so like there are many services that rely on anthropics api.. if for example I inject the word openclaw into a bunch of chat bots or voice bots that might be using anthropics API would this also break them…
Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
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Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
#422That is a huge red-flag. While I understand that they will do some policing/censoring, this is way beyond what I would consider acceptable. They can have a different price plan for agentic stuff, but these things where they “accidentally” whoops match on specific keywords and trigger extra usage charges is giving a evil-microsoft-vibe
What I don't quite understand is why would one of the most advanced AI labs use rudimentary broken text match heuristics to track and detect abuse. Why not run simple inference on actual turns out of band, and if abuse is detected, adjust the quotas semi-retroactively.
> What I don't quite understand is why would one of the most advanced AI labs use rudimentary broken text match heuristics to track and detect abuse.
It's vibe-coded. What's hard about understanding that?
Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
#423A lot of the comments here are reacting to the censorship aspect, which is obviously an important point. But the more interesting subtext to me is that I feel like this gives insight into the situation within the company. I'm assuming they wouldn't do something like this unless the recent load issues (mostly driven by OpenClaw usage) were seen as an existential threat. So I'm guessing that's how the leadership views…
> The irony of course is that the way they've gone about reacting to this has damaged their brand so badly at the trust level that the public view of their company has completely flipped.
No one at my company gives a single shit about Openclaw, so this whole situation has been a noop for a lot more of the public than you seem to think.
Also, "censorship"? How is disallowing a specific tool that abuses a subscription "censorship"?
Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
#424Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you say harness what do you mean? I see the term thrown around a lot and I think it's lost its meaning in some fashion.
In this context it means the tool you use the models with. So Claude Code is a harness, OpenAI's codex, Opencode, pi, etc. Those are all cli harnesses
Gotcha, thanks!
Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
#425Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation which limits liability to shareholders. Just because they screwed up their billing doesn't mean every ethical commitment they've ever made is bunk.
> Anthropic is a public benefit corporation which limits liability to shareholders What does this have to do with their ethics? This seems irrelevant unless your understanding of ethics ends at fiduciary duty to investors.
It's the opposite. Parent comment was saying they must be unethical due to their duty to investors. As a public benefit corporation, they can take ethics into account even if it harms shareholders. The extent to which they do so is still up to them, as I understand it, but they aren't forced to be evil as parent was suggesting.
Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
#426Wow so like there are many services that rely on anthropics api.. if for example I inject the word openclaw into a bunch of chat bots or voice bots that might be using anthropics API would this also break them…
and HERMES.md
Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's rather shitty. It's one thing to disallow bypassing preferential pricing models, it's a completely different thing to castrate your model against some uses. You can see how it goes in the future. Wanna vibe code a throwaway script? $0.20. Ah, it's for a legal document search? $10k then. Oh and we'll charge 20% of your app sales too - I can see how they are going in real time, mind you!
I'm not a lawyer but is this legal? It's extremely anticompetitive.
we're talking about american companies in the US in 2026 -- what does the the law have to do with anything that happens?
Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
#428Earlier quoted context omitted.
We all get the "realpolitik" of it. That doesn't mean anthropic just gets to ignore the contract they signed. Well it does as long as you're fighting the fight for them before it even gets to anthropic.
I strongly dislike all of these companies (and the people who run them), and I don't love LLMs in general, although I use them every day because they are useful for my job. But the simple fact is, if you're paying $20/mo and using $200/mo of tokens, that is not going to last forever. The only way to make it last a bit longer for the people with relatively sane usage patterns is to try and stop people absolutely takin…
Ok well they need to do it above board and legally then.
Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
#429Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if projects which are anti-AI could place such identifiers surreptitiously into docs or commits as a way to sabotage people using Claude Code. Your project isn't going to get many AI PRs if just cloning your project wiped out their quota.
Currently I do this: ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 No clue if this is useful. https://github.com/SublimeText/Modelines/blob/master/Claude....
FYI this does not work for CTF challenges at least - I’ve seen a lot of rev/pwn challenges try to add magic refusal strings/prompt hijacking and models really don’t give a damn.
Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
#430So it seems that Anthropic has a hidden list of special words that redirect billing without warning or disclosure. And when this is pointed out as a billing error they say they won't refund until it gets the HN treatment. If they can/will bill you differently based on actual use then it seems like how they determine that use is important to disclose right?
Another B2B win handed to Microsoft Copilot/Azure, just for being boring and consistent. It doesn't matter if your product is better if it's unreliable and inconsistent.